The White House’s New Favorite Pastime: Scolding Hondurans

There isn’t much going well for the Obama Administration right now, and that’s kept the White House from riding its favorite rhetorical metaphor: the high horse.  But when all other moral high grounds fail, they never get tired of flogging Hondurans.
This year, we’ve had North Korea launching missiles at our allies, shipping military supplies to [...]

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And It’s On: Throwdown with Bobby Micheletti

So former Honduran President Zelaya found a way to get back into the country, then hunkered down in the Brazilian embassy for safekeeping.  I’m sure his remaining supporters are overwhelmed by this dramatic show of courage.
President Obama can’t be happy about this development.  His Administration has taken a manifestly undemocratic position toward the situation in [...]

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Okay, Mr. President – What Should Honduras Have Done?

Late last week, the State Department announced that it was making permanent its temporary freeze of foreign aid to Honduras.  It did so in quite striking terms:
Mr. P.J. CROWLEY (Spokesman, State Department): These are not temporary measures. We now have pressed the stop button. This aid is lost to Honduras for the time being. There’s [...]

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